Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.

The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.